HP Pavilion dv2000/dv6000/dv9000 & Compaq Presario V3000/V6000 series Laptops
Written on 1/07/2010 06:21:00 PM by Marc Crow
I can't count how many HP Pavilion dv6000/dv9000 laptops I have worked on in the last year. They all had the same problem, black screen and wouldn't do anything else, or the wireless would just quit working out of the blue. The wireless problem is an easy fix. The black screen, not so much.
HP extended the 1 year warranty for another 2 years on these specific laptops because of all the problems they were causing, but the problem now is that the extended warranty has expired also (at least all the ones I have come across).
I worked on 3 of the HP/Compaq models listed above today. 1 had the wireless issue, 1 had the black screen issue (bad motherboard), and 1 was still working perfectly. I warned that lady about her laptop. Told her the issues it had and about the expired extended warranty. Suggested to her a couple of different backup solutions, and a couple of different (more reliable) laptop brands.
SO, if you have one of the laptops named above and it is still working, congratulations first off, and 2nd, you should probably bring it in and let me check to see if it has the BIOS update that fixes (supposedly) the problem.
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